I had a bit of a chuckle when I read that you were thinking of escaping to Canada. I was thinking of moving overseas somewhere, so I can get the hell away from the States if McCain/Palin wins this upcoming election.

I live in Edmonton, Alberta, and to be honest, your election is way more important to me and mine than our own national election that happened a little while ago.

I'm pretty sure part of the reason Harper called an early election was to have the US election as a distraction to our own as well as avoid any sort of Liberal groundswell domestically after a Democratic win South of the border. The result is he gets another year (at the minimum) to govern while the Liberal party elects a new leader and gets its shit together before risking tumbling the government.

The Obama Half-Hour was exactly what it seems he wanted it to be - one final chance for undecided voters to get a good look at the Obama he wants them to see. Nothing wrong with that. And to be fair, he has to burn through those million$ somehow. Otherwise, it's just people's donations lying about.

I voted last week (Chicago, vote early, and often!) at the board of elections. I moved recently and getting my license updated and address and blah was more of a pain than just going downtown once. Nice thing was, there was a SERIOUS line of people, mostly Black and...happy. I've been voting in every election, state, local and federal since I was 18, more than a decade, and this was the first time I saw HAPPY people at the polls. Usually it was me and the elderly. I got used to a man with an oxygen tank handing me my ballot and waiting while the person in front of me shat themselves because he couldn't vote for Coolidge. Young, racially diverse and HAPPY people voting for McCain.

What are your election day plans? My wife and I (getting hitched tomorrow!) are spending a few hours at my friend's "election results party" and then heading back home for more drinking and yelling at the election coverage.

here's a great interview with Robert Draper, a reporter for GQ who got deep in the McCain Campaign. My favorite bit

WWD: You mentioned that the McCain campaign thinks that blogging is inimical to journalism. Do you think it’s true what they said in your story, that reporters are “primarily young, snarky, blog-obsessed and liberal?”R.D.: Oh, yes, I think it’s true, but I don’t think it’s a fatal impediment.

Nice thing was, there was a SERIOUS line of people, mostly Black and...happy. I've been voting in every election, state, local and federal since I was 18, more than a decade, and this was the first time I saw HAPPY people at the polls. Usually it was me and the elderly

Had a similar experience, except this is Johnson County, Kansas, so just a smidge less racially diverse (Uncyclopedia entry: "Johnson County is a very diverse community where you can find both Anglos and Saxons."). But everyone was entirely pleasant, lots of smiles on people's faces, and the geriatric brigade running everything was super nice and super efficient. It was happiness all around.